Identity Manager Tips

Changing default OSP configurations for IDP

MigrationDeletedUser

Supporting OSP with third party products can be tricky, and changing its default configurations that don't work too well with IDPs can be trickier. It may come as a surprise (it was to me) that these configurations can be changed. And changing these is…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Reading through the OSP log - Part 4

Geoffrey Carman

When last we left off, we had actually started to login, via OSP. Isn't it amazing how much trace it takes to get to an actual login, right? This is part of the reason they ship OSP with much lower levels of logging enabled. As you can imagine, this would…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Getting Started with OSP – Part 5

Geoffrey Carman

In the previous articles in this series I was discussing what should be known to get started with OSP and started reading through the osp.log of a server starting up. It is interesting to see all that goes on under the covers to get a good feel for what…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Getting Started with OSP – Part 4

Geoffrey Carman

In this series of articles I am trying to look at the One SSO Provider (OSP) which is used internally by NetIQ IDM to allow single sign on to the web interfaces IDM offers. This is a very interesting product in its own light, being used in a very narrow…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Reading through the OSP log - Part 3

Geoffrey Carman

In the last two articles I was working through OSP log from an issue I had. Much of it worked properly and is useful to review to see what a properly working OSP session should look like. Reading through the logs offers some interesting insights into…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Reading through the OSP log file – Part 2

Geoffrey Carman

In the first part of this series I noted I would walk through the procedure a user login to OSP for IDMProv might take, and show a specific error I ran into. In the previous article I showed it rendering the login page, seeing the user is not authenticated…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Reading through the OSP log file - Part 1

Geoffrey Carman

If you have been following the evolution of Identity Manager at NetIQ/Micro Focus you will have noticed how logins have changed with the latest versions of IDM 4.02 (Home and Provisioning Dashboard add on) and IDM 4.5 and higher. Previously the login…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Getting Started with OSP - Part 3

Geoffrey Carman

In the first two articles in this series I discussed some of the basic things about getting OSP installed and configured so that the various web components of NetIQ Identity Manager working. OSP is the front end authentication module that support name…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Getting Started with OSP – Part 2

Geoffrey Carman

In the previous article on OSP I discussed the certificates needed, and the order of install. Since this is critically important to get OSP working let me repeat quickly here. There are two keystores involved, the general Java stack (/opt/netiq/idm/apps…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Getting Started with OSP - Part 1

Geoffrey Carman

When Identity Manager was first released by Novell as DirXML 1.0 the product was focused exclusively on synchronizing objects between different directories, databases, text files, and more. As time rolled on more features got added. With Novell Nsure…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
How to add new locale to the Identity Applications on a Tomcat Server (Part 2)

tami

This guide is intended for users who want to translate the Identity Manager HPD and UA into a language that is not part of the standard language support set. In the first part I talked about how to add new locale to User Application driver and in the…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
How to add new locale to the Identity Applications on a Tomcat Server (Part 1)

tami

One of the features IDM 4.5 documentation is missing are the instructions on how to add new locales to Home and Provisioning Dashboard (HPD) including the One SSO Provider (OSP) login page and the "old" UserApplication (UA) interface. After several support…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Branding and Localization of the OSP Login Page

tschloesser

Before OSP was introduced the customization of the IDM login page was a quite simple task through the administrative UI of the User Application. But now, when using OSP to enable single sign on to all the user web services the login page is no longer…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Troubleshooting OSP and SSPR - Part 3

Geoffrey Carman

As I worked through a new Identity Manager 4.5 setup I was trying a number of things and ran across some interesting errors. This series of articles is meant to share what I found, hopefully with error codes for the Google cache. This way, if you run…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Troubleshooting OSP in IDM 4.5 - Part 2

Geoffrey Carman

Recently I spent a lot of time working through the new OSP (One SSO Provider) used in Identity Manager 4.5 for logging into the various Identity Applications (User Application, Catalog Access, Home and Provisioning Dashboard, Reporting, Access Review…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Troubleshooting OSP in IDM 4.5 - Part 1

Geoffrey Carman

Updated Dec 19, 2023, fixed a link that pointed at old version of community. With the release of the gemstone projects for IDM 4.02, and built into IDM 4.5 NetIQ changed the method for logging into the Identity Applications. The Identity Applications…
- over 1 year ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips
Configuring IDM 4.5s OSP to talk to a Shibboleth IDP

Geoffrey Carman

Steps to get OSP talking to Shibboleth IDP: In the world of federation there are many possible tools and protocols to use. There is an alphabet soup of acronyms like SAML, WS-Fed, WS-*, Shibboleth, Liberty, SOAP or REST, Oauth, etc. There are a host of…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ Identity Manager
- Identity Manager Tips

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